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Definitions and Possible Meanings:
  1. penalty (n) -
    1. a punishment for breaking a law, rule, or legal agreement
  2. penalty area (n) -
    1. the area in front of the goal in football. The team opposing you is given a penalty if you break a rule there.
  3. surrender penalty -
    1. an amount of money someone owning an insurance policy has to pay if they stop the policy before it MATUREs (=becomes due for payment)
  4. penalty point (n) -
    1. a note made on a driver's licence to show that they have done something wrong while they were driving. If someone gets 12 penalty points, they are no longer allowed to drive a car.
  5. penalty clause (n) -
    1. the part of a contract which says what someone will have to pay or do if they do not obey the agreement, for example if they do not complete work on time
  6. penalty kick (n) -
    1. a penalty4
  7. death penalty (n) -
    1. the legal punishment of death
  8. penalty box (n) -
    1. an area off the ice where a player in ice hockey must wait after not obeying a rule
  9. penalty shoot-out (n) -
    1. an occasion when each team in a football match takes penalty kicks until one team misses the goal – used as a way of deciding which team will win when the ordinary part of the match has ended in a draw
Synonyms and Similar Words:
Penalty
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Meta Information
Misspelled:No
Name:No
Syllable Count:3
Audience Familiarity Audience Familarity refers to the ability of the audience to recognize and understand a word.
Word Rank:4265th
Grade Level (Approximate)A 1995 study[1] found that junior high school students were able to recognize between 10,000-12,000 words, whereas college students were able to recognize between 12,000-17,000 words.:Elementary or Middle School
Fog Reading Ease Complex Word:Yes
Dale-Chall Reading Ease Difficult Word: Yes

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